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ATENTEn JAN. 15, 1907. E. PEARL. WEBDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20, 1906.

DEM 10030473 amm m 4 invention is illustrated Y tines may be opened UNITED STATES FATE Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented. Jan. 15, 1907. 1

Application filed Newman 20, 1906. Serial No. 344,222.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,

in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Weeders, of which the following is a specification.

y invention relates generally to gardening-tools, and as herein embodied is designed toproduce a tool of the weeder type of a form adapted for use as a rake, hoe, &c.

A tool constructed in accordance with my 7 in the accompanying (has, in which- Figure l is a view in perspective thereof. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and 3 is a detail cross-section. c

Referringito the drawings, the tool as shown is preferably formed of several pieces of stout spring-wire which are twisted toother throughout a portion of their length, orming a shank 1. The shank is fitted inha t e wires extending outward therefrom are spread and bent up to form a series of tines 3, which are flattened at their extremities, as

indicated at 4.

Constructed as described, the toolis of a form'suitable'for use as a hand-rake, and in order that it may be readily adapted for ollilopping, hoeing, &c., a spacing-bar 5 is s move forward, as indicated by dotted lines together until they meet, forming practically a continuous cutting-blade, asshown- By shifting the bar 5 backward or forward the or closed as required to adapt them to the distance separating the rows of plants, as will be obvious.

The spacing-bar is prefer-ably formed of a strip-of sheet metal having portions 6 struck up and shaped to partly encircle each of the tines. Its outward movement is limited by EUGENE PEARL, a citi-J zen of the United States, residing at Passaic,

ly mounted upon the tines and when 2, draws their flattened extremities.

the bent-up portion 7 of the tines and its inward movement by stops 8.

The extreme simplicity, effectiveness, low cost of manufacture, as well as the many other advantages, of the invention, will be apparent from the foregoing description.

I claim- -1. A .tool comprising a series of wires se cured together at we 6'. form a shank and having straight portions extending outward from the shank and terminating in bent-up extremities, and means for varying the spacing of the free ends of the wires.

2. A tool comprising a series of wires twisted together at one end to form a shank and having straight portions extending outward from the shank and terminating in bent-up flattened extremities, and means for securing said flattened extremities, in such relation as to form a continuous cutting ed e.

g. A tool comprising a series of springwires twisted together at one end to form a shank and having straight portions eXtend ing outward from the shank in different directions and terminating in bent-up extremities, and a spacing-bar engaging each of the wires and movable thereon to vary the distance separating their free ends.

4. A tool comprising a handle having a se ries of wires extending outward therefrom in diverging relation and terminating in bentup extremities, and a spacing-bar shaped to partly encircle'each of the wires and movable thereon to vary the distance separating the bent-up ends thereof.

In testimony whereof I, EUGENE PEARL, have'signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 19th day of November, 1896.

EUGENE PEARL.

Witnesses:

MARY Boson, E. O. EVANS. 

